Intel Likely To Support AMD's Screen-Tear Slaying FreeSync Technology

It's kind of dropped off the radar, but both NVIDIA and AMD have been working on a solution to the infamous effect of "screen tearing". The former has been pumping its G-SYNC tech, while AMD has favoured its own solution called FreeSync. Intel may have just decided the winner of this particular war, with the company being "positively inclined" to support AMD's implementation.

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Have they dropped off the radar? I haven't heard much about G-Sync in a while but there's been a steady stream monitor releases supporting FreeSync.

Anyway, great to see more support for FreeSync. As much as I prefer NVIDIA cards, the open-ended FreeSync is without a doubt the better choice and hopefully Intel gives it the push it deserves into broader support..

FreeSync can be improved continuously, which would obviously benefit everybody that has invested in it while G-Sync will always be exclusive and only available to a specific set of users. Proprietary should be frowned upon while open standards should be praised, that's what I think at least.

Well, the Khronos Group's Vulkan API used Mantle as a starting point. I wouldn't be surprised to see this API finding its way into platforms that have traditionally favoured OpenGL over the next few years (since Khronos is also responsible for OpenGL).

You might not see many platforms advertising support for Mantle, but the ideas behind it seem to have taken hold.

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